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Egg on Mao

The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship

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Description de l’éditeur

Denise Chong, the beloved author of The Concubine’s Children, tells the story of a man who humiliated a repressive regime in front of the entire world, and whose daring gesture informs our view of human rights to this day.

Despite his family’s impeccable Communist roots, Lu Decheng, a small town bus mechanic, grew up intuiting all that was wrong with Mao’s China. As a young man he believes truth and decency mattered, only to learn that preserving the Chairman’s legacy mattered more.

Lu’s story reads like Shakespearean drama, peppered with defiance, love and betrayal. His steadfast refusal to acquiesce comes to a head, but not an end, with his infamous defacing of Mao’s portrait during the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square.

GENRE
Biographies et mémoires
SORTIE
2009
29 septembre
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
256
Pages
ÉDITIONS
Random House of Canada
TAILLE
7,2
Mo

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